{"id":13040,"date":"2013-06-10T14:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=13040"},"modified":"2013-06-10T04:17:48","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T08:17:48","slug":"john-peters-peters-posts-first-career-nelcar-podium-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/john-peters-peters-posts-first-career-nelcar-podium-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"JOHN PETERS: Peters Posts First Career NELCAR Podium Finish"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amsoil NELCAR Legends Tour: John Peters
\nStar Speedway Race Report<\/strong><\/p>\n

EPPING, N.H. \u2013 John Peters of Westbrook, Maine, finished a career-best third in the Amsoil NELCAR Legends Tour 25-lap event at Star Speedway in Epping, N.H., on Saturday, June 8. Peters’ first podium finish in his rookie season came after leading a handful of laps in a door-to-door battle for the top spot throughout the middle stages of the event. The night of career firsts continued for Peters, who also qualified a season-high third for the feature event in just his inaugural visit to the tight quarter-mile track with the No. 51 Cash For Clunkers\/Derek Kneeland Racing Sedan.
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\nWHO<\/strong>: John Peters, Westbrook, Maine
\nCREW CHIEF<\/strong>: Greg Peters, Westbrook, Maine
\nTEAM<\/strong>: No. 51 Cash For Clunkers\/Derek Kneeland Racing Sedan
\nSPONSORS<\/strong>: Cash For Clunkers, Derek Kneeland Racing, Digby’s Variety, Top Gun Construction, Traxside Racing Supplies, Beaulieu Construction<\/p>\n

WHAT<\/strong>: Amsoil NELCAR Legends Tour 25
\nWHERE<\/strong>: Star Speedway, Epping, N.H. (.25-mile oval)
\nSTARTED<\/strong>: 3rd
\nFINISHED<\/strong>: 3rd
\nAmsoil NELCAR Legends Tour<\/strong>
\nNEXT RAC<\/strong>E: June 13, Beech Ridge Motor Speedway, Scarborough, Maine (.333-mile oval)<\/p>\n

******<\/p>\n

JOHN, HOW GOOD DID TONIGHT FEEL?
\nWe had a really good night. The heat race went really well after we made some changes in practice. I didn’t quite have enough for the 2X, but I was happy with it. In the feature, I thought we were going to get the same thing \u2013 riding behind the 2X the whole time.<\/p>\n

But the car was really fast, and I was able to get wheel-to-wheel with him. We ran side-by-side for countless laps. It was just a great race, and it was a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING LEFT AT THE END OF THE NIGHT?
\nAt the end of the race, I just got too tight. I couldn’t hold it down as well as I needed to to get back to the gas. With a couple of laps to go, I just pushed up and the 38 was able to get by me so we finished third.<\/p>\n

But, overall, I’m so happy with how it went tonight.<\/p>\n

HOW DOES IT FEEL TO HAVE YOUR FIRST PODIUM FINISH IN NELCAR?
\nMy dad worked really hard all day, and we made a bunch of changes after practice to get the car better. I’m really excited about this. It’s our first Top-3, so I couldn’t be any happier right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amsoil NELCAR Legends Tour: John Peters Star Speedway Race Report EPPING, N.H. \u2013 John Peters of Westbrook, Maine, finished a career-best third in the Amsoil NELCAR Legends Tour 25-lap event at Star Speedway in Epping, N.H., on Saturday, June 8. Peters’ first podium finish in his rookie season came after leading a handful of laps […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4168,112,67],"tags":[15160],"class_list":["post-13040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nelcar","category-new-hampshire","category-star-speedway","tag-john-peters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}